Senior Software Engineer, Product

<p><a href="https://happyscribe.notion.site/Work-At-Happy-Scribe-72cc8cb35ccb4ad18cd159e6ae19be50" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>← Our Careers Page</strong></a></p><p></p><h1>Hello ✨</h1><p>We're<a href="http://www.happyscribe.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> <u>Happy Scribe</u></a>, a 100% bootstrapped and profitable startup, based in Barcelona.</p><p>We are on a mission to break language barriers globally and bring audiovisual content to all.</p><p>We are building the #1 Audiovisual Platform by combining state-of-the-art AI with trusted language experts to produce high-quality transcriptions, subtitles, and closed captions at speed.</p><p>We're 40 people at the moment, and we're building the team thoughtfully and with a lot of care. How would you like to join us on this journey?</p><p>This is a <strong>hybrid</strong> role, based in Barcelona. Happy Scribe is office-first, remote-friendly. In other words, we aim to spend most of our time collaborating in person.</p><p></p><h2><strong>What you will do… </strong></h2><ul><li><p><strong>Build product features from start to finish</strong>. You'll wear many hats during the creation process while you conceive, design, implement, ship and maintain them — think features to improve the editing experience.</p></li><li><p><strong>Build</strong> the <strong>scalable infrastructure</strong> needed <strong>for the transcription of the future</strong> — like identifying coupling and extracting concerns into small and scalable services.</p></li><li><p><strong>Improve the performance, reliability, and efficiency of our systems</strong> — for example finding bottlenecks in the transcription pipeline and optimizing them to reduce overall turnaround time.</p></li><li><p><strong>Design and implement processes and internal tools</strong> with simplicity and productivity in mind — such as a tool to sync valuable user feedback with the internal database.</p><p></p></li></ul><h2><strong>What you will bring…</strong></h2><ul><li><p>You have a solid background as a Software Engineer and enjoy working in a Full Stack role, focusing approximately 70% on backend and 30% on frontend tasks.</p></li><li><p>You're <em>product</em> focused. You want to listen to customers, and build the product that will solve their needs.</p></li><li><p>You care about the business implications of anything you build. You don't go after the shiny stuff, but see it as a balance of craft, speed, and the bottom line.</p></li><li><p>You love steep learning curves, and are not afraid to learn about subjects that are outside of the comfort zone. For example, you can learn most technologies as you go. You're pragmatic about them, it's about the tools and tradeoffs, not ideologies.</p></li><li><p>You care about information security and design things with security in mind.</p></li><li><p>You are excited about <a href="https://www.notion.so/Engineering-Principles-3f2c7f983d374392ae22d734066dbe04" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">our engineering principles</a>. Or at least curious about them, if they seem very different from what you've been doing in the past.</p></li><li><p>You’re a great mentor, able to share your knowledge and upskill other team members. Bonus points if you have experience helping a junior engineer stretch their skills and learn fast.</p></li><li><p>We have a <strong>language-agnostic approach to code</strong> and believe the best engineers can code in any language. Our stack is in <strong>Ruby on Rails</strong> and <strong>React</strong>, but it's not a requirement that you know how to work with them. We like to work with people who are more interested in the problem they're solving than in the language they're using to solve it. We use Heroku for infrastructure and AWS as a cloud.</p></li></ul><p></p><h2><strong>Company Culture</strong></h2><p>✨ <strong>Have an impact on millions of people</strong> — Change how users and language professionals make transcriptions, translations and subtitles.</p><p>👫 <strong>Work with a small team of bright people</strong> — When we talk with most people, they have a hard time understanding how we got so far with so few people. We're close in ARR to a typical Series B company, but our ARR per employee is 10x the industry average.</p><p><strong>🤝 A company culture built on trust, autonomy, and independence</strong></p><p>🛫 <strong>Infinite runway, no investment pressure</strong>. We are 100% bootstrapped and profitable. Every penny spent comes from happy customers who are paying for a product they value. Many tech companies are laying off staff because they grew too fast and need funding to survive. We prioritised profitability and sustainable growth, and are not impacted by funding shortage.</p><p><strong>🍽️ In-Person culture</strong> — We believe nothing beats the magic of great people working together in person, in and outside of working hours. We work together, and spend time together: